I'm Starving
Director：Yau Ching
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Running Time：12mins
Region：Hong Kong
Year：1999
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SYNOPSIS
I'm Starving is an erotic love tale between a ghost and a woman who share a small apartment in New York's Chinatown. The ghost who eats paper money and Chinese takeout menus contrasts starkly with the woman who thrives on instant ramen noodles; both, haunted by their landlord, decide eventually to invent a future together.
Director Biography
Yau Ching (born 1966, Hong Kong) is a writer, filmmaker, moving image artist, scholar, and educator. An important figure in pushing the development of moving image in Hong Kong, Yau was a member of Hong Kong—based new media art organisation Videotage at its founding stages. Over the past thirty years, Yau has created ten moving image works and four feature films, expressing her ongoing exploration of home, gender, and history.
Director's Statement
This is eventually a story about desire, or its impossibility. I was at a stage that I needed to realize a story as such, as a catharsis for my own being. The themes that I have always been obsessed with, like language and cultural differences, are still present but while they form essential components of the story, they also give way to something more basic: the will to desire; to love and to live.
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